ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

Research Article | Open Access
Sandeep Kaur, Himanshi Bansal, Bahaar Hundal, Bhavya Arora,Navneet Kaur, Nikita Sharma and Vandana Sharma
Department of Food Science, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh – 160036, India.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2021;15(2):639-649 | Article Number: 6879
https://doi.org/10.22207/JPAM.15.2.07 | © The Author(s). 2021
Received: 03/02/2021 | Accepted: 24/03/2021 | Published: 09/04/2021
Abstract

In recent years, solid waste management has developed from early approaches of burning or dumping to reuse, recycle, regain, and retain various alternative technologies. The present study aims at developing an effective community waste management model with a solution to multiple issues. It aims to provide an alternative to widespread stubble burning, burning dry leaf litter and promoting plastic reuse. The present novel technology involved the cultivation of Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) in used plastic bottles to convert agricultural and urban waste into a highly nutritional end product. In this direction, the effect of different wheat straw and dry leaves’ ratios was assessed on the spawn run time, primordial formation, final harvesting time, mean yield per plastic bottle, and the % biological efficiency per gram of the substrate. Both the combinations of L30:WS70 and L50:WS50 represented ideal options for using the two waste substrates to cultivate the mushroom species. This model will help recycle agro-waste and serve as an effective method of generating nutritious food for fighting food security while decreasing the plastic load and trash thrown for disposal.

Keywords

Oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, Biological Efficiency, Plastic bottles, Dry leaves, Stubble burning

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